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Road's End is the exciting fourth book in the Narrow Gate series. Kara and Mathew continue their quest to find the Narrow Gate, but they must first deal with a new threat and come to terms about their feelings for one another.

As an adolescent counselor, Gary specializes in working with at-risk, violent, suicidal, and depressed boys and girls. Gary is also a noted relationship counselor with a core focus of strengthening relationships throughout the world. For five years, he served as the youngest of five male school counselors in the Chicago land and St. Louis area! As an author and inspiration speaker, Gary has been featured on various radio talk shows, college campuses, workshops, conferences, and panels.

As an adolescent counselor Gary specializes in working with at-risk, violent, suicidal and depressed boys and girls. Gary is also a noted relationship counselor with a core focus of strengthening relationships throughout the world. For five years he served as the youngest of five male school counselors in the Chicago land and St. Louis area! As an Author and Inspiration Speaker, Gary has been featured on various radio talk shows, college campuses, workshops, conferences and panels.

Kipling A. Jackson, diagnosed five years ago, refuses to let ALS become a death sentence. Jackson takes an in-depth look at the respiratory side of the disease. His wry sense of humor produces a hilarious narrative that will leave the reader feeling inspired. As Jackson shares his personal journey, he discusses why he chose to extend his life with mechanical ventilation and the tracheostomy. His story is an excellent educational tool for everyone who comes in contact with ALS.

Every family has its secrets. When Kyle Wells and his friends take an annual trip to his family’s cabin deep in the Rocky Mountains, a string of events unravel to expose what his family has kept hidden for decades. As an unexpected blizzard pounds the mountains, a friend begins to act different and seems a bit off after a strange encounter in the woods. Mysterious beings known as Exalls follow them back to the city where further chaos erupts.

From a co-founder of empowr.com comes this "Why?" story behind the massive social platform, empowr, that’s been in the making for 15 years. Learn exactly what drove the participants (founders, advisors, success coaches, and 1,000 employees, plus 100,000 alpha test users) in their gigantic moonshot project.

Leigh Hawthorne, a widow and local farmer in Tucker Springs, receives an unusual letter from a man out west who wants to marry a woman with ranching expertise. Could this solve all of Leigh’s problems? Hoping to find a better life, Leigh embarks on a journey to Chance City, Oklahoma. Fired for breaking Pinkerton rules, former detective Cyrus Decker just wants to live a quiet life as a cattle rancher. The problem is that he knows nothing about ranching - and his bank account shows it.

Seven Mountains to Aratta by B.J. Corbin provides evidence that supports Alvand Mountain in Iran as the possible landing site for Noah's Ark. According to Corbin, Alvand Mountain meets the criteria for both the biblical mountains of Ararat and the mythological Aratta mentioned in Sumerian texts. B.J. Corbin has over 30 years experience searching for Noah's Ark and has participated in four expeditions to Mount Ararat in Turkey.

The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. David Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to support it today.

Jon Archer wants to get home to his comfortable bed. He’s on his way to it in fact when he suddenly and inexplicably finds himself standing in the middle of a desert. Life deals him three more strange hands in the form of a talking goat, a British-speaking spider, and when he thought things couldn’t get weirder, a space man.

Ayn Rand's philosophical novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged made her the most controversial author of her age. Her works have drawn millions of fans and continue to sell at a breathtaking pace. Their impact on American culture runs from libertarian politics to the self-esteem movement in psychology to the rugged individualism of Silicon Valley and the Internet. Rand also launched a movement of intellectuals committed to her philosophy of Objectivism.

The cost of sexual indiscretion is highly disproportionate to whatever momentary gain or pleasure you may derive from it. Moral and spiritual drains caused by sexual indiscretion are often gradual, and the decline is often unnoticed, until it is too late to stop the drift. God commands sexual purity, and enlightened self-interest demands it. The longer you are sexually indiscrete, the more entwined in it you become, and the more difficult it becomes for you to get out.

This guide to energy drinks tackles the three most common questions about these controversial products: Are they safe? Do they work? How do they work? Within this guide, you'll meet the 20 most common ingredients found in energy drinks. For each ingredient, you'll find information on a safe/effective dose, as well as helpful stories, puns, and metaphors to learn the science behind what these ingredients do. You'll also discover the key factors that make energy drinks safe or unsafe, and how unsafe products are regulated and reported.

Gus Stevens has the worst of both worlds. By night, he resides in the Dream World, a place steeped in magic and exotic dangers. By day, a giant snow-lizard stalks him in the Real World, looking to make Gus its next meal. In order to regain control of his life, young Gus must undergo a psychoanalytic exorcism. But this comes with a high price-he must break away from everything he has ever thought was real.

Nearly three billion years into the future, the solar system is a very different place. Earth is long gone, and the sun is a gray, shrunken dwarf. All that remains of humanity and conscious thought is Jonathan - the last machine.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could meet anybody and, within minutes, know quite a bit about them and even know if they are lying to you? Or perhaps you have an interview coming up and you want to know if your potential future boss is just nodding his head to be nice or if you're actually doing a great job. You can know these things. In this book, you will learn how to categorize people into personality types upon meeting them.

A private plane with a family spanning three generations disappears in the mountains. After a desperate plea for help, a major search and rescue mission is launched. Meanwhile, a hiker sets out to climb a 9,415-foot mountain on his own. He fails to return, causing his fiancée to report him lost. Another search and rescue is launched on his behalf. With help from the stratosphere, the two search missions each make unexpected discoveries, leading to a dramatic change in circumstances and ending.

In 1995, three intrepid adventure seekers travel by small sailboat and kayaks risking death in rough seas to find the Painted Cave of Santa Cruz Island.

A travel writer in need of a Halloween story decides to visit the north country of Yorkshire, where he wants to visit villages with haunted houses and to interview people who have ghost stories. Riding his bicycle northward from York, he collects photographs and stories from villagers as he cycles along. Coming to the end of his work day, the threat of a rain storm prompts him to take a back road to an obscure village, where he hopes to find lodging for the night.

Overcoming Trauma: Using the Breath of Life provides simple techniques that help you remove the mental barriers that prevent you from achieving your desired goals and dreams. It shifts your thinking so that you stop dwelling in past pains and hurts that resulted from traumas in childhood, relationships, and less than ideal career choices.